C.R.W. NevinsonThe Great War Fourth Year Paintings by C.R.W. Nevinson with an introduction by J.E. Crwford Fitch Grant Richards limited, London 1938 - This book is known for the beautiful color offset lithograph by Nevinson, signed in pencil. One of the great WWI images in striking color. Plate is near fine (just very minor far-edge wear at the text block contact), beautiful image. Quarter grey-green cloth with gray boards. Boards are worn and there is some paper chipping. Overall size 290 x 228mm (11 1/2 x 9 in). The binding is a very loose sewn binding, obviously intended for easy removal of the signed lithograph. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Heyer, Georgette:A BLUNT INSTRUMENT London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1938. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher?s blue cloth with with titles in gilt and black to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding clean and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents has a previous owner?s name on the front free endpaper otherwise are clean and bright throughout. Complete with the original lightly rubbed dustwrapper which has a single tiny chip at the bottom of the slighty darkened spine. Correctly priced 7/6net to the spine. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Verve; Artist and Liberary Quarterly SPRING 1938 (MARCH - JUNE) Volume 1 Number 2 Paris: Verve, 1938. Wraps. vg. Quarto. (14" x 10 1/2") 128pp Two lithographs by Kandinsky and two by Masson. There is a light spotted stain at bottom front cover. Bottom corner of page 6 shows similar type of stain. (This does not affect the illustration. Light chip at top of spine. There is a crease to top of one of the tissue pages. Overall, a nice copy.

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.The Hobbit, or There and Back Again Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. hardcover. fine. Illustrated by the author. Colored frontispiece. 8vo, beautifully rebound in full beige morocco with gilt lines and burgundy leather spine labels. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First American Edition, second state, with the publisher's flute-player device on the title page. Fine.

Forester, C S SHIP OF THE LINE Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 323 p. First American edition. The second Horatio Hornblower novel Forester (1899-1966) completed, following his fictional hero during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver and gilt stamping. Internally crisp and clean, an unread example. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some mild fading along the spine.

McCLELLAN, WilliamPenthouse Pagan New York: Phoenix Press, (1938). New York: Phoenix Press. (1938). First. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing and a couple of tiny tears. Risque novel featuring a ravishingly beautiful young woman who trades her charms to be a kept woman in a swanky penthouse. A beautiful copy of a scarce title. .

BEATON, Cecil Cecil Beaton's New York. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd.,, 1938. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to front cover and spine in black. Colour illustrated frontispiece, and numerous black and white drawings and photographs by Beaton, both in the text and to plates. Some minor spotting to leaves and fore-edge, spine and boards bright but slightly marked. A very good copy in the jacket, slightly tanned at spine with chipping to head, small tear to top of back panel and a small hole to the lower spine panel. First edition, first impression.

BISHOP, ElizabethCounty Courthouse. An original watercolor, gouache and India ink on paper by Bishop, 6 ¾" wide x 5 ¾" high, circa 1938 - Benton 23. For three months during the winter of 1938, Bishop lived in a boarding house at 529 Whitehead Street, across the street from the Monroe County Courthouse, a two-story red brick courthouse built in 1890. In all probability this picture represents the view from the boarding house. The courthouse survives, and still appears almost unapproachably tangled up in a welter of trees, telephone poles and electrical wires.

C S ForesterFlying Colours Including The Ship of the Line - Hornblower Michael Joesph, UK 1938 - 1st Edition Thus 1938. Published one day prior to the first separate trade edition of A Ship of the Line. Signed by C S Forester on a special bookplate designed especially by the book socitey by Rex Whistler. This bookplate was specially designed for this title with the title printed below the image of a man reading at his desk in his library and signed by Forester beneath the title.The Book Society also published this book in conjunction with Michael Joseph. 284pp., bound in green cloth lettered in silver, spine lettering silver. Book is very good++ and bright and clean. Contents good. Bookplate to front endpaper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Wilder, ThorntonOur Town Coward-McCann, 1938 A near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket with the original price of $3 still present on the front flap. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY.THE D. A. HOLDS A CANDLE New York: William Morrow and Company, 1938., 1938. First edition. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends, corners, and extremities. The second novel to feature Douglas Selby, the fighting District Attorney of Madison City.

Du Maurier, DaphneRebecca (With Ephemera Signed By The Author) The First UK Printing published by Gollancz in 1938. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Light pushing and fading at the spine ends. Robert Gibbings 'The Book Society' bookplate to the front pastedown. Some light toning to the text-block and end papers. The pages are remarkably clean and free from the usual foxing that is commonly encountered with this title. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. Mild edge-wear with a little loss at the spine ends and folds. Some professional tissue paper repairs on the verso to a few closed tears mainly on the folds. The wrapper colouring remains very good with a little fading to the spine and looks very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. The books accompanied by a loose 12 x 9 cm colour photograph of the author in there garden. This has been Signed twice by the Author on the verso and on the sleeve portion of the photograph. Housed in a custom solander box with gilt titling. Filmed memorably by Hitchcock in 1940 and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. A very attractive example of an increasingly difficult title to find in collectible condition.

Faulkner, WilliamThe Unvanquished (Signed Limited Edition) New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. First Edition. One of 250 copies (this being No. 23) SIGNED by the author. Seven interconnected stories dealing with the Civil War and its immediate aftermath in Yoknapatawpha County, the first five of which were originally published separately in "The Saturday Evening Post," with the sixth story originally published in "Scribner's," and the final story seeing it's first publication here. Very Good plus in a Very Good publisher's acetate dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, light bumping to the board fore edges. Two inch tear to the front panel and the crown, with accompanying crease, small chip to the bottom bottom corner of the same, light foxing to the spine. Scarce in jacket.

H. C. Schulz (introductory essay).A Leaf from a Fifteenth Century Flemish Book of Hours Grabhorn for David Magee, San Francisco 1938 - Printed at the Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1938, with a lovely hand-painted leaf. Publisher's binding housed in a slipcase. A bit of sunning to spine label, else near fine. Lovely leaf book. Hamel and Silver, Disbound and Dispersed 77 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

KIRKWOOD, Kenneth P RENAISSANCE IN JAPAN: A Cultural Survey Of the Seventeenth Century. Tokyo 1938, Meiji. Green cloth, very good, 414p., index,. appendices, notes, chronology, 17 b. w. photos, neatly. rebacked, 14.5 x 22 cm., corners a bit bumped, else clean.. FIRST & ONLY SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES. This excellent study covers the Kyoto period of classical revival, the reaction against classicism, popular movement, economic influences, Basho, the pilgrim Poet, Ibara Saikaku the novelist of the gilded age. Chikamatsu Monzaemon: first, second & third period. * Decline of Kyoto epoch, the seventeenth century. This well organized and researched study addresses the first of two distinct periods within the Tokugawa era. The Kyoto epoch covering the Kyoto, Osaka and adjacent areas which made the greatest advances in cultural development from 1600-1700. * Covering the literary trends, theatrical stage, drama, poetry: Basho, Chikamatsu & Saikaku. * The author was a member of the Canadian Legation and an accomplished Japanologist. His writings on Japan are quite rare, most of which were privately printed in a Limited Edition only. * . *** Color scans of this and most other items are posted to our website. Book description text protected by Copyright. .

Crofts, Freeman Wills:ANTIDOTE TO VENOM London: Hodder and Stoughton 1938. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding lightly rubbed and darkened at the extremities, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner?s inscriptions or stamps. Top and fore-edge of the text block a little dusty and spotted. Complete with the original Dorothy Burroughes pictorial dustwrapper which is entirely without loss or tears, with some light marking and a few nicks and creases to the extremities. Correctly priced 7/6net on the spine. A nice copy in entirely original condition. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

BRANDT, Bill A Night in London. London: Country Life,, 1938. Story of a London Night in Sixty-Four Photographs. Introduced by James Bone. Large octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Housed in a black flat-back cloth box made by the Chelsea Bindery. With 64 illustrations from photographs by the author, captioned in English and French. Slight loss to spine ends, some cracks and wear to spine panel, internally fresh. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. There is some speculation that the scarcity of this publication is in part due to enemy action; the publisher was badly hit by the fire in Paternoster Row, and copies of this delicate and influential work are uncommon.

ARDIZZONE, Edward :TIM AND LUCY GO TO SEA New York, Oxford University Press, (1938).. FIRST U.S. EDITION (1938), written and illustrated by Ardizzone, wonderful coloured illustrations throughout printed 1 side only. 4to, 335 x 225 mm, 13Â¼ x 9Â¾ inches, colour illustrated boards, grey CLOTH spine with red cursive lettering, no pagination. Very slightly worn at tail of spine and lower corners, neat small inscription on blank front endpaper, 1 small very pale mark in 1 upper margin. Near Fine in good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, several small chips to edges, two larger chips to lower panel, maximum 40 x 30 mm, (1Â¼" x 1Â½"), 10 mm (Â½") chip at tail of spine and on top edge of upper panel, 140 mm (4Â¼") closed tear to to upper panel). This U.S. first edition is 5 mm (Â¼") taller and wider than the U.K. edition and it has the advantage of a cloth spine, rather than the fragile paper spine of the U.K. edition. Alderson, Ardizzone, No.4 and No. 7. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Powell, Michael200,000 Feet on Foula [The Edge of the World] (First UK Edition, inscribed by Michael Powell in 1942) Faber and Faber, London 1938 - First Edition. ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed in 1942 by Michael Powell: "For Roy Plomley / who knows all about desert islands / Michael Powell / 1942." The book was inscribed on the occasion of Powell's appearance on the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs, where he was interviewed by Plomley, the show's founder.Michael Powell re-appeared in the 1980s and 1990s under the auspices of Martin Scorsese, and examples of books he inscribed during that period turn up with some regularity. We have, however, only seen one other example of a contemporary inscription on this title, Powell's first book.A diary-like account of the making of his classic 1937 film, "The Edge of the World," a project that was very close to his heart and his first film to be shot in the beloved Scottish Isles (the next was I Know Where I'm Going, in 1945). The film's story was inspired by the evacuation of St. Kilda, and won the director an introduction to the great British producer Alexander Korda, followed, of course, by a decades-long teaming with Emeric Pressburger and a brilliant career. Photo illustrated throughout.Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. A small bit of foxing to the endpapers, and a single small spot of discoloration to the backstrip. Jacket shows some rubbing and very shallow creasing at a few extremities, but has no loss. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Kern, Jerome. (1885-1945)Ol' Man River" - Autograph Musical Quotation - Boldly penned AMQS of Kern's most famous song and one of the most famous American songs ever composed. Two measures in thick black ink on a small card, inscribed above and signed beneath the quotation "Jerome Kern / Dec. 1938" and identified by the composer. 8 x 5.5 cm. In fine condition. Autograph quotations from this song are very rare and desirable. "Ol' Man River" is a song in the 1927 musical Show Boat that expresses the African American hardship and struggles of the time with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River; it is sung from the point-of-view of a black dock worker on a showboat and is the most famous song from the show.

Kern, Jerome (1885-1945)"Ol' Man River" - Autograph Musical Quotation Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Boldly penned AMQS of Kern's most famous song and one of the most famous American songs ever composed. Two measures in thick black ink on a small card, inscribed above and signed beneath the quotation "Jerome Kern / Dec. 1938" and identified by the composer. 8 x 5.5 cm. Ã‚Â In fine condition. Autograph quotations from this song are very rare and desirable.Ã‚Â <br style=""><br style=""><br><br><br />"Ol' Man River" is a song in the 1927 musical Show Boat that expresses the African American hardship and struggles of the time with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River; it is sung from the point-of-view of a black dock worker on a showboat and is the most famous song from the show.

Nielsen, P. BirkedalJeg Laver Kartoffeltryk Skandinavisk Bogforlag, (Denmark) 1938 - Quarto. (30)pp. First edition. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. A Danish guide to the craft of printing with carved potatoes, which also includes examples of stories illustrated with potato prints. Instructions show how to carve the stamps and create characters, scenes, and action by combining and re-arranging basic geometric shapes. The stories are comic misadventures clearly intended to capture children's attention. In one, a boy and a rabbit outsmart a devilish troll, and in another, roving thieves meet their demise in various ways. The color illustrations show the full artistic potential of this humble medium; the final page is a Scandinavian landscape, in which three children hold the flags of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Slight toning to front cover, else fine in illustrated boards. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

White House Steinway] Beck, Dunbar. (1903 - 1986)Important Collection of Designs and gilted wood study for the White House Steinway - An important archive of assorted studies on paper and wood as well as photographs and other ephemera related to the grand piano decorated by Dunbar Beck, presented by Steinway to Franklin Roosevelt in 1938, and which remains in the East Room of the White House to this day. The archive generally in very good condition, various sizes and formats, with scattered minor tears, smudges, and creases. From the Estate of the artist. Included here are two copies of a finely printed trifold Steinway brochure ("The Nation's Second Steinway") with a brief history of the instrument: "On December 10, 1938, Theodore E. Steinway, President of Steinway and Sons, and grandson of Henry Engelhard Steinway, the founder, stood in the White House before the President, and said: 'Some five and thirty years ago we had the distinguished honor of presenting the instrument which has found its home here since that time. Now, because of your graciousness and generosity, Sir, this great distinction comes to us again. The motives that impelled this presentation are the same that impelled the first one, namely, it is a paean of thanksgiving by a family who arrived on these friendly shores from abroad and here were permitted to seek and make their homes and their lives, and to pursue their work with happiness and contentment.' President Roosevelt accepted the instrument for the nation, saying he dedicated the New Steinway to 'the advancement of music in every city, town and hamlet in the country.' Visitors will see the instrument in the East Room of the White House. The case, of finest Honduras mahogany, was designed by Eric Gugler. Dunbar Beck executed the symbolic decorations, which represent elementary American music - the Virginia reel, the New England barn dance, the ceremonial chant of the American Indian, the Negro cotton-picker bursting forth into song and the cowboy singing beneath the prairie stars. The massive eagles, symbolic of freedom, which support the case are the work of Albert Stewart. This magnificent instrument was built in its entirety with loving solicitude at Steinway, L.I., by craftsmen who believe it is their destiny to make the finest piano in the world. All those who worked on this piano sought to create an instrument which would be a State piano, one that would be at home in the White House." The White House website features a short film about the piano ("Catching up with the Curator: The Steinway Piano"), including footage of it being performed at recent White House concerts, as well as archival footage of it being played by Harry Truman. The archive features 11 original studies by Beck, of various sizes and formats from approx. 6 x 12 to 11 x 14 inches. For the "Barn Dance" tableau, there are four drawings in pencil, ink and/or gouache plus a magnificent fully realized wooden maquette painted in gilt precisely as seen on the actual piano. For the "Native American" tableau, there are four original drawings, plus a photograph of the final panel, inscribed by Beck on the verso "Hard to find an Indian dance not connected to war or religion - Crow Indian social dance depicted." For the "Virginia Reel," one drawing included and there is a further drawing depicting two figures speaking with a man on horseback, illegibly inscribed below and perhaps a discarded earlier idea. A 24 x 18 inch printed diagram of a Steinway Model D ("Scale - 2 in = 1 ft"), features on the verso an expressively drawn male nude, evidently not related to the designs for the piano, though included because of its placement on the diagram. Also included is a 20 x 16 inch black and white doubleweight presentation photograph of the piano, a program from the "Preview Luncheon to the Creators of the White House Piano" (Lotos Club, NY - December 3rd, 1938), a 4-page Steinway News brochure about the piano (including a photograph of Beck), an original 1928 graphite portrait drawing of Beck by W. Christian, and a letter to Dunbar Beck on Steinway & Sons letterhead dated Janua

FORESTER, C S Flying Colours London: Michael Joseph Ltd,, 1938. Including A Ship of the Line. Octavo. Original green cloth, yellow endpapers, titles to spine and front board in silver. With the dust jacket. Gentle roll to spine, book plate to inside front flap, light wear to extremities, short closed tears to top end of spine, rubbing to corners. A very good copy. First edition, first impression. This is the true first printing of Flying Colours issued in conjunction with the Book Society, preceding the single volume publication.